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committee to elect gladys soto for san francisco school board 2012. bob squary for district 7 supervisor, 2012. steve young for college board 2012. sam rodriguez for s.f. scoreboard 2012. reelect rachel norton for board of education 2012. raphael [speaker not understood] for san francisco community college district board 2012. san francisco rising action fund committee, national union of health care workers candidate committee for [speaker not understood] union democracy. fdr democratic club san francisco. district 11 democratic club. african-american democratic club. richmond district democratic club. harvey milk lgbt democratic club pack. municipal executives association of san francisco pack. one california for all leland yee ballot measure committee. san francisco building and construction trades council political organization of workers for employee rights, power pack. united here local 2 pack. coleman action fund for children committee. this land is your land. elect women 2012 committee to support anderson [speaker not understood] de jesus [spea
committee to elect gladys soto for san francisco school board 2012. bob squary for district 7 supervisor, 2012. steve young for college board 2012. sam rodriguez for s.f. scoreboard 2012. reelect rachel norton for board of education 2012. raphael [speaker not understood] for san francisco community college district board 2012. san francisco rising action fund committee, national union of health care workers candidate committee for [speaker not understood] union democracy. fdr democratic club...
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so, in each year that we have an election, toward the middle to the end of the summer when the election kicks off in earnest, they virtually stop doing audits and work almost completely on the public financing program, which is sort of an auditing process in itself. because with public finance candidates, you're not just looking at contributions after the fact, you're also monitoring all the ones that are coming in. so, it's almost like a double audit because, of course, it's public money so we treat it very carefully. and, to be honest, although we have four auditors and they're all excellent people, we can really use five, perhaps even six, you know. some day, really, we ought to be able to audit all committees and not just public finance committees and a handful of others. we just don't have any other resources to do that. >> and in addition to what the what director sinclair said, during the election season, the auditors very closely review notifications from candidates as to which threshold they're at in terms of fund-raising and spending. and they also review third-party spending
so, in each year that we have an election, toward the middle to the end of the summer when the election kicks off in earnest, they virtually stop doing audits and work almost completely on the public financing program, which is sort of an auditing process in itself. because with public finance candidates, you're not just looking at contributions after the fact, you're also monitoring all the ones that are coming in. so, it's almost like a double audit because, of course, it's public money so we...
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so, in the 2012 election, 12 candidates qualified to receive public funding. we disbursed approximately 1.2 million in public funds. the candidates spent about $3 million. and third-party persons spent approximately 1.5 million. i'd like to point out that there is a typo that i just noticed on page 3. the last sentence in the first paragraph states that there were 22 eligible candidates. there were actually 12 eligible candidates as stated on page 2. and all the information is in the report. if you have any questions, i'd be glad to answer them. >> how do you think we did compared to our goals for public financing? >> you know, it's been very difficult to identify whether we've been meeting our goals because each election cycle, the rules change. so, for example, when those public financing program first started in 2002, we did not have individual expenditure ceilings. we just had ceilings where when they were lifted, they were lifted for everybody, including publicly funded candidates. so, once the ceilings were lifted, candidates could spend as much as they
so, in the 2012 election, 12 candidates qualified to receive public funding. we disbursed approximately 1.2 million in public funds. the candidates spent about $3 million. and third-party persons spent approximately 1.5 million. i'd like to point out that there is a typo that i just noticed on page 3. the last sentence in the first paragraph states that there were 22 eligible candidates. there were actually 12 eligible candidates as stated on page 2. and all the information is in the report. if...
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. >> item no. 4, studies update on how jurisdiction seeks to elect officers between election cycles. >> sflafco staff, at each of your desk i did drop off an executive sum -- summary and data points we collected so far. i had expected to present a full draft, i ask the chair to give me a few more days to ensure that we have more in the report and we are correcting any of the errors. because there is so many data points involved. i don't want to have an incorrect output. i wanted the give you very briefly and quickly summary of what we did. we looked at san francisco being the city and county, a charter city and county, we are the only one that exist. we took multiple data sets of looking for information. we looked at -- there is other places in the nation that have cities and counties and jurisdictions, like in new orleans they are called the parish rather than the city. there are 12 charters counties in california and compared to the state level to how to government runs. charter companies, you have no mayor, in the cities you have mayor's and counsel but not a board of supervisors.
. >> item no. 4, studies update on how jurisdiction seeks to elect officers between election cycles. >> sflafco staff, at each of your desk i did drop off an executive sum -- summary and data points we collected so far. i had expected to present a full draft, i ask the chair to give me a few more days to ensure that we have more in the report and we are correcting any of the errors. because there is so many data points involved. i don't want to have an incorrect output. i wanted the...
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to make a product of the discretionary act by those elected. so goes with that experiment the tentativeness of what this commitment would actually be. why is why -- which is why i would like to see what the mayor's office and board of supervisors to look at those forms of discipline and what they look like to us. >> i recognize the fear -- and i think it's a fear, not even a concern that professor simon has creating an assessment tool that can be manipulated for low-level offenses or drug offenses that can end up like the impact much like we have today with the commercial bail system. but i believe there is a way that we can create validated risk assessment tools that would look at the areas of concern. whether we are talking about the likelihood for reoffending in a violent way or the likelihood of not showing up in court. i think there are systems in place that show a tremendous amount of promise. and we can continue to go down that path to create that tool to avoid to the greatest extent possible picking on those things that frankly large pe
to make a product of the discretionary act by those elected. so goes with that experiment the tentativeness of what this commitment would actually be. why is why -- which is why i would like to see what the mayor's office and board of supervisors to look at those forms of discipline and what they look like to us. >> i recognize the fear -- and i think it's a fear, not even a concern that professor simon has creating an assessment tool that can be manipulated for low-level offenses or drug...
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the reason that was filed against him is because the law strictly cites that it has to be an elected official or a department head and bottom-line i was in the military for quite a few years and one of the things i learned is the co is responsible for everything that goes on under his or her command. one of the comments that mr. [inaudible] made were regarding sergeant goss. he talked about all the expertise he had, experience, so forth, but sergeant goss for all his expeer seize cannot answer a simple idr in compliance with the law. some people say i want to embarrass people with my remarks. if the order is embarrassing, it is members of the legal division that have embarrassed the chief, not me. the simple fact that the legal division can't seem to accept a public records request and answer it on a timely basis is unacceptable. and the chief is responsible to see that all of the officers, all of the staff under his command follow the law. in in this case he did not. you can say you're just being picky, but on a nine to one vote turns out i was right, it was not responded to properl
the reason that was filed against him is because the law strictly cites that it has to be an elected official or a department head and bottom-line i was in the military for quite a few years and one of the things i learned is the co is responsible for everything that goes on under his or her command. one of the comments that mr. [inaudible] made were regarding sergeant goss. he talked about all the expertise he had, experience, so forth, but sergeant goss for all his expeer seize cannot answer...
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heard from staff that libor fraud has cost the city millions in losses at sfo, the pension fund, as our elected officials, the the board of supervisors has the legal, moral and financial obligation to protect the city's resources. we urge you not to take a wait and see approach but rather take proactive and aggressive action to get that money back for san francisco. the facts are strong and unchanged even in light of the federal ruling last week. while the judge dismissed some claims like antitrust, other legal avenues to recover losses remain open. we can monitor the progress of the federal class academies lawsuits, but if -- action lawsuits but if we sit on the sidelines we will lose the able to recover our losses. we need to look at our options under state and federal law and do it quickly. every day we wait, every day we could be losing ability to recoup these losses because of the statute of limitations runs out on some of these claims and a number of class action lawsuits don't actually cover state based claims open to us so the idea of waiting to see what happens with other suits don't c
heard from staff that libor fraud has cost the city millions in losses at sfo, the pension fund, as our elected officials, the the board of supervisors has the legal, moral and financial obligation to protect the city's resources. we urge you not to take a wait and see approach but rather take proactive and aggressive action to get that money back for san francisco. the facts are strong and unchanged even in light of the federal ruling last week. while the judge dismissed some claims like...
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as our elected representatives, you have the legal and financial and moral responsibility to protect our city's resources, whether it's five cents or five million, we want our money back. now more than 20 lawsuits around the country have been filed, including at least nine public entities in california. the city of san francisco needs to join. therefore, i'm calling on you to find out exactly how much we lost from the libor fraud and take legal action to get our money back for san francisco. if it takes an extra hour on the computer, it is your job to investigate. as a mother with a daughter entering public high school this fall, i also want you to make sure our schools and other public entities investigate their losses and get that money back. again, i say, whether it's five cents or five million, we want our money back. >> supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. elizabeth -- vice president of politics for sau local 21 and i work at the tenderloin clinic. over the last six years we have been sustaining terrible budget cuts. you're the budge
as our elected representatives, you have the legal and financial and moral responsibility to protect our city's resources, whether it's five cents or five million, we want our money back. now more than 20 lawsuits around the country have been filed, including at least nine public entities in california. the city of san francisco needs to join. therefore, i'm calling on you to find out exactly how much we lost from the libor fraud and take legal action to get our money back for san francisco. if...
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as our elected representatives, you have the legal and financial and moral responsibility to protect our city's resources, whether it's five cents or five million, we want our money back. now more than 20 lawsuits around the country have been filed, including at least nine public entities in
as our elected representatives, you have the legal and financial and moral responsibility to protect our city's resources, whether it's five cents or five million, we want our money back. now more than 20 lawsuits around the country have been filed, including at least nine public entities in
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has been our chief for years and to ensure a project happens like this on time. [ applause ] as an elected official i'm very sympathetic acknowledging other officials, jose cisneros from our treasurer's office and former assembly woman, i would be remiss if we didn't acknowledge our former mayor willie brown and john mayor who has been very supportive. thank you to them as well. i recognize our director, but i think it's important to recognize our board of directors who has been really instrumental in advising this project from a construction standpoint and community standpoint and i want to recognize our directors, art lloyd, gabriel metcalf, director of mta and john, we also have alternate member greg harper, a founding member of the board that will be participating more frequently. i want to thank everyone today. it's been a long process to get here. everyone involved in this project knows. thank you to everyone here. [ applause ] >> i for got to mention that our state senator mark leno has also presented a certificate of recognition to the transbay transit tower. it congratulations on
has been our chief for years and to ensure a project happens like this on time. [ applause ] as an elected official i'm very sympathetic acknowledging other officials, jose cisneros from our treasurer's office and former assembly woman, i would be remiss if we didn't acknowledge our former mayor willie brown and john mayor who has been very supportive. thank you to them as well. i recognize our director, but i think it's important to recognize our board of directors who has been really...
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francisco, whether as an independent, fundraiser for independent expenditures or directly for campaigns of elected officials. to me that does not mean we overlook what our responsibility is as board of supervisors that we make sure that we don't have apparent conflict of interest and gaining of our rules through our own personal benefit. i believe what we have here as an example that mr. murphy has been involved in shows that we would be remissed in the backstop of his appointment. i urge you to not pass this motion. we can have the mayor come back with another person to look at our port and be on our port commission, one who i believe can stand up to scrutiny about how he or she has been able to represent the city in a way that understand our rules and abides by them. thank you. >> colleagues, is there further discussion? president chiu? >> thank you, colleagues, first of all i want to thank mr. murphy for his service to the city and has already been described he has contributed to our city. from my purpose we have not had any issues. there have been a number of allegations regarding potentially
francisco, whether as an independent, fundraiser for independent expenditures or directly for campaigns of elected officials. to me that does not mean we overlook what our responsibility is as board of supervisors that we make sure that we don't have apparent conflict of interest and gaining of our rules through our own personal benefit. i believe what we have here as an example that mr. murphy has been involved in shows that we would be remissed in the backstop of his appointment. i urge you...
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brasso, sounds like we should be electing you to the state house. [laughter] >>> i do serve on the [speaker not understood] legislative committee on the state level. so, we would do this there, too. >> thanks. you're already on your way. thank you. i was wondering if you could just expound in just a few sentences about the bicycle ambassadors program. >>> sure. >> and how that actually relates to pedestrian safety. >>> absolutely. this is a program that i found out about in new york city. and when i was back in new york, i talked to the young man there who works with this program. they have something called transportation alternatives, which is a combination of walk, walking or pedestrian safety organizations, bicycling, and public transportation. and they know that in new york as in san francisco, bicycling has increased exponentially throughout the city. and what they're trying to do there, they've trained ambassadors to address bicycle safety by encouraging bicyclists to -- these people that train, they go out in special little shirts and they br
brasso, sounds like we should be electing you to the state house. [laughter] >>> i do serve on the [speaker not understood] legislative committee on the state level. so, we would do this there, too. >> thanks. you're already on your way. thank you. i was wondering if you could just expound in just a few sentences about the bicycle ambassadors program. >>> sure. >> and how that actually relates to pedestrian safety. >>> absolutely. this is a program that i...
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actually in dc to at least a part of the hearing and i know that his team and we collectively as a city elected family must make sure that we continue to fight. the second point today is i would like to, i'm introducing a hearing request on a very important issue which we as a city and a country to have deal with and that is the implementation of the affordable care act. so i'm calling for a hearing on how the department of public health is planning to implement the affordable care act here in san francisco. the hearing will look into what implications the implementation will have for the san francisco program and the ordinance that was by supervisor aaron oh. we know for instance that the undocumented population is left out of coverage by the affordable care act so we need to know what that means for the city and county of san francisco. i know besides what needs to happen within the city of government, we have to talk about how we work with other health care institutions, whether it's the clinic consortium and other hospitals and i know that it's contingent on legislation being passed at the
actually in dc to at least a part of the hearing and i know that his team and we collectively as a city elected family must make sure that we continue to fight. the second point today is i would like to, i'm introducing a hearing request on a very important issue which we as a city and a country to have deal with and that is the implementation of the affordable care act. so i'm calling for a hearing on how the department of public health is planning to implement the affordable care act here in...
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i'm here because our elected representative david chew seems to have stopped representing us he won't call a community meeting the last community meeting was cut short by a fire alarm with a whole lot of unanswered questions i'm sure you received our march 14th letter that we have had to schedule ourselves because mr. chew doesn't answer our requests for the questions to be answered or about another community meeting. mr. nolan you have acknowledged and mr. rifkin you have acknowledged -- back in december we were given five options for where they could be extracted one of them was clear down on columbus and taylor streets which is totally unrealistic -- and among the five is the chinatown option and now we're told that other circumstances have neg ated -- therefore we're having to have our own community meeting inviting you and experts that you referred to but we've never seen any reports as to why chinatown has become infeasible so it's going to disrupt us for years and years and i want you to think about that thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please? >> john horn followed by ron
i'm here because our elected representative david chew seems to have stopped representing us he won't call a community meeting the last community meeting was cut short by a fire alarm with a whole lot of unanswered questions i'm sure you received our march 14th letter that we have had to schedule ourselves because mr. chew doesn't answer our requests for the questions to be answered or about another community meeting. mr. nolan you have acknowledged and mr. rifkin you have acknowledged -- back...
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agree with the board of supervisors that none of us have spent more time on any single projects as elected officials than we have on c pmc. that's why we are so proud. i would like to thank cpmc, and mike brown and who we have got tone to know so well in the past few months. it took a tremendous effort, good faith on all sides and i look forward to working with all of us and most importantly to lou gerardo who is in front of you. he's not only the most famous baker, but i will tell you straight up, if it weren't for him, we would not have gotten through this process. it was lou gerardo who put this together. thank you so much for all your efforts. >> so i will briefly touch on the elements of this deal that are incredibly significant. first of all cathedral hill and new campus for cpmc, originally it was going to be 550 bed hospital, today it's 250 beds approximately half the size to also build additional 30 beds. while smaller, this does reflect the concerns of the local neighborhood and as well as relating to saint luke's. but most importantly it does create a brand new hospital at cathe
agree with the board of supervisors that none of us have spent more time on any single projects as elected officials than we have on c pmc. that's why we are so proud. i would like to thank cpmc, and mike brown and who we have got tone to know so well in the past few months. it took a tremendous effort, good faith on all sides and i look forward to working with all of us and most importantly to lou gerardo who is in front of you. he's not only the most famous baker, but i will tell you straight...
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i've caught part of it and reminded one of the reasons i didn't seek re-election but i commend you for our service. i thought there is one issue that deals with temporary slalz and i thought i'd like to break it down. we're in agreement with the recommendations but some of the things in the report i'm not happy about. the savings educate is basically two categories one is salary attritions which is typically the savings the department will have when you budgeted for an employee to be there for the entire year and it turns out i don't have to pay somebody for the whole year because of part time or leave or furlough or the employee leaves the office before y
i've caught part of it and reminded one of the reasons i didn't seek re-election but i commend you for our service. i thought there is one issue that deals with temporary slalz and i thought i'd like to break it down. we're in agreement with the recommendations but some of the things in the report i'm not happy about. the savings educate is basically two categories one is salary attritions which is typically the savings the department will have when you budgeted for an employee to be there for...
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and yet i want to talk about the silver lining because as we are in partnership with the elected leaders in san francisco we've continued to create some innovative protection and prevention. i want to tell me this is called the garden cascade otherwise known as the garden can say candy. almost a million folks are living with hiv. and you continue to go down less and less phone calls are engaged in care and those are the folks that at that point hiv transition reduces dramatically. what's pretty incredible is that we've tested will 8 hundred and 62 folks and found them positive for hiv and 50 percent of those have reached an undetectable environmental load because they've had the comprehensive services our community is providing. we're leader and we must continue to lead. what we know is we've been in deep dialog. we've been our mother to as worked because we've targeted hiv testing programs that reach the people that are the hardest to reach. they target the most eventually visually communities. our models work because we're in partnerships and many other embedded in organization that pr
and yet i want to talk about the silver lining because as we are in partnership with the elected leaders in san francisco we've continued to create some innovative protection and prevention. i want to tell me this is called the garden cascade otherwise known as the garden can say candy. almost a million folks are living with hiv. and you continue to go down less and less phone calls are engaged in care and those are the folks that at that point hiv transition reduces dramatically. what's pretty...
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elected officials, legislators, and to advance the project and also need to be focused on dealing with the community groups. they have to the a proven regional team player and political and know and be politically savvy and know how to deal with the politics of san francisco and active participant outside of san francisco. so in addition to having meetings here and attended meetings locally, they need to be able to go out into san mateo county and east bay and have a presence outside of san francisco and be able to engage with the committee agency by the transportation authority in order to move the project forward and collaborate and inclusive in the decision making and they also need to inaccurate to and respond to a variety of different stake holders and they need to have great working relationships with partners on all levels city, region, state and commanding respect throughout all levels of the transportation community and they need to be really involved in transportation. the next core competency is a passionate leader. it's someone who is passionate and also has some compassion
elected officials, legislators, and to advance the project and also need to be focused on dealing with the community groups. they have to the a proven regional team player and political and know and be politically savvy and know how to deal with the politics of san francisco and active participant outside of san francisco. so in addition to having meetings here and attended meetings locally, they need to be able to go out into san mateo county and east bay and have a presence outside of san...
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i think it's also important that once the person is elected that we also have someone who is going to be able to work with the very difficult verse communities that we have in san francisco so that there is equal access in terms of the availability of this data. and it's not just the business community, but the nonprofit community, private residents, all of that. so, i think it's an exciting thing and i think that the more people who came here continue to be engaged, the more transparent the process will be. thank you. >> great. and i am also very interested to see how technology can better help government serve the people that we represent. so, with that, madam clerk, is there any other business before this committee? >> there are no further item. >> actually i would make a motion to move this forward with positive relevanttion. >> yes, with recommendation to the full board. all right. with that the meeting is adjourned. [gavel] (applause) >> ready to start. >> okay. roll call. >> commissioner rue, brandon, item 2 approval of minutes for the march meeting? >> all in favor? aye. >> pu
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we elect you, please help us. don't put us the seniors and the youth in the bagged. we're never mentioned on any of this. the youth look what's happening around us. children where are they going? no more because we can't afford to give them programs. they do the graph - >> please no outbursts during the preceding. thank you >> good afternoon. i'm with the south market action community network. the youth and family is special youth district is very important to us especially like me a low income family. and an immigrant. there's a shortage of hotel i heard but it is also a lot of things for the low income families for the families. there's a lot of families that are in shelter in s o r hotel. so why don't we build a low income housing in our youth and family zone. so, please commissioner vote no for this project. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm shaun i've been working there for over 2 years and i believe i vote no against the project so the youth can have positive activities then just hanging out in the streets. thank you >> thank you and a good evening
we elect you, please help us. don't put us the seniors and the youth in the bagged. we're never mentioned on any of this. the youth look what's happening around us. children where are they going? no more because we can't afford to give them programs. they do the graph - >> please no outbursts during the preceding. thank you >> good afternoon. i'm with the south market action community network. the youth and family is special youth district is very important to us especially like me...
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he is handling situations from pink saturday, castro street fair, halloween, occupied protest and election night celebrations. i have witnessed sergeant linberg work tirelessly on the quality of life issues and helping keep spaces open for law abiding citizens. my personal interaction with the sergeant, he is polite, professional, friendly, happy to answer questions, address concerns. to me chuck is the face of san francisco police department and i think we can all be very proud of that. thank you. >> good evening commissioners. thank you for coming out to the mission. my name is andrea a yawl a. for the community benefit district a local assessment district funded by the property owners and the district area about 270, we are also fund you -- through donations and grants and although we do collaborate off and on projects. i'm here today to thank captain moezer for his leadership and his commitment to community policing. under captain moezer's leadership the castro has had the same team for a time. they know the residents, the homeless and urban campers and trouble makers, they are conscie
he is handling situations from pink saturday, castro street fair, halloween, occupied protest and election night celebrations. i have witnessed sergeant linberg work tirelessly on the quality of life issues and helping keep spaces open for law abiding citizens. my personal interaction with the sergeant, he is polite, professional, friendly, happy to answer questions, address concerns. to me chuck is the face of san francisco police department and i think we can all be very proud of that. thank...
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about effective communications with the board of supervisors, the mayor's office and san francisco's elected representative at the state and federal levels, it needs to mention the mta too, i think. that would be my recommendation and i just wanted to echo our chair avalos's suggestion that the track record of promoting social justice and equity is top priority. and focusing on track records that someone who has a demonstrated experience from promoting equity and justice. this you for doing that. >> i think it goes beyond the mta. probably there are other departments that are related to other work of county transportation authority. >> we always run the risk if we put one agency in there that we then have to put all the agencies in there not to lose sight of this. if there is a what the we can use a catch phrase that is inclusive for all of those regional partners that will work to our benefit. so but if there is -- if we know there is three agencies and three agencies only that we are concerned about and we fill those three in and we use a catch phrase for the rest of them. >> i think it ma
about effective communications with the board of supervisors, the mayor's office and san francisco's elected representative at the state and federal levels, it needs to mention the mta too, i think. that would be my recommendation and i just wanted to echo our chair avalos's suggestion that the track record of promoting social justice and equity is top priority. and focusing on track records that someone who has a demonstrated experience from promoting equity and justice. this you for doing...
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know that because of the dozens of district 7 residents that have reached out to my office since my election with their concerns and priorities. pedestrian safety is a public safety issue in san francisco. in the first three months of 2013 six people have lost their lives because of pedestrian collisions and two in district 7 and i find this is unacceptable. the city and myself as a supervisor we all have the responsibility to do everything that we can to improve this situation. pedestrian safety to me is also a question of being fiscally responsible and making it most out of money that the city spends. on the cost side every year collisions between pedestrians and cars cost the city an average of $15 million and district 7 trails only district 6, three and four in how much the collisions cost the city. on the spending side i want to make sure as a city we are making smart investments based on data, and that we try to coordinate among the many city agencies under which these matters fall, so that we are efficient, coordinated and effective. finally i think that pedestrian safety is a communi
know that because of the dozens of district 7 residents that have reached out to my office since my election with their concerns and priorities. pedestrian safety is a public safety issue in san francisco. in the first three months of 2013 six people have lost their lives because of pedestrian collisions and two in district 7 and i find this is unacceptable. the city and myself as a supervisor we all have the responsibility to do everything that we can to improve this situation. pedestrian...